Mike Frysinger [Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:24:29AM -0400]: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote: > > Mike Frysinger [Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:57:42PM -0400]: > > > distros have long been using 1.20.1 (and thus the associated ABI) to > > > the point that anything built against 1.19.x is irrelevant. the breakage > > > seen with 1.20.1->1.20.4 is going to be much much more severe. > > > > Sorry, why 1.20.1 -> 1.20.4? Didn't you mean 1.20.3 -> 1.20.4? > > i meant inclusive ... there are a lot more people out there now using the > SONAME with the new interface than there are with the old interface I am not sure how you can count that, but actually the soname bump was something I just missed for some years and did now. I know that you dislike the bump, but you can see it from the positive side: You can prepare scripts to do the migration and you can reuse them, as soon as libgpm2.so.* is available, as it will most likely have some changes (and thus some different sonames) until being stable. Sincerly Nico -- Think about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/foss/the-term-foss/ PGP: BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42 F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C
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